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October 4th


- Christian Feast Day
- Cinnamon Roll Day or kanelbullens dag (Sweden)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Lesotho from Great Britain in 1966.
- The beginning of World Space Week (International)
- World Animal Day (International)

October 4th


- 2004 - SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
- 2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
- 2001 - NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty.
- 2001 - Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: a Sibir Airlines Tupolev TU-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. 78 people are killed.
- 1997 - The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.
- 1993 - Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
- 1992 - The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique.
- 1992 - El Al Flight 1862: an El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
- 1991 - The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
- 1988 - U.S. televangelist Jim Bakker is indicted for fraud.
- 1985 - Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
- 1983 - Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019 km/h), driving Thrust 2 at the Black Rock Desert of Nevada.
- 1976 - Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).
- 1967 - Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
- 1966 - Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- 1965 - Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.
- 1960 - Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 of 72 on board.
- 1958 - Fifth Republic of France is established.
- 1957 - Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
- 1957 - Avro Arrow roll-out ceremony at Avro Canada plant in Malton, Ontario.
- 1943 - World War II: U.S. captures Solomon Islands.
- 1941 - Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.
- 1940 - Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini at the Brenner Pass.
- 1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
- 1918 - An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey. Fires and explosions continue for three days forcing massive evacuations and spreading ordnance over a wide area, pieces of which were still being found in 2007.
- 1895 - The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1883 - First run of the Orient Express.
- 1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1876 - Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
- 1853 - Crimean War: The Ottoman Empire declares war on Russia.
- 1830 - Creation of the state of Belgium after separation from The Netherlands.
- 1824 - Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
- 1795 - Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence with a "Whiff of Grapeshot", using cannon to suppress armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention).
- 1779 - The Fort Wilson Riot takes place.
- 1777 - Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
- 1725 - Foundation of Rosario in Argentina.
- 1693 - Battle of Marsaglia: Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
- 1636 - The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
- 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
- 1535 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.
- 1511 - Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
- 1363 - End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
- 1227 - Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
- 1209 - Otto IV is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III.
- 663 - The battle of Baekgang begins. (Traditional Chinese date: August 28, 663).
- 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.

October 4th


- 2005 - Prince Emmanuel of Belgium
- 1989 - Dakota Johnson, American actress
- 1989 - Stacey Solomon, English singer
- 1989 - Lil Mama, American rapper
- 1989 - Kimmie Meissner, American figure skater
- 1988 - Derrick Rose, American basketball player
- 1987 - Rawez Lawan, Swedish footballer
- 1986 - Yuridia, Mexican singer
- 1985 - Shontelle Layne, Barbados born singer
- 1985 - Thorsten Wiedemann, German rugby player
- 1984 - Lena Katina, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
- 1984 - Álvaro Parente, Portuguese racing driver
- 1983 - Dan Clarke, British racing driver
- 1983 - Risa Kudo, Japanese gravure idol
- 1983 - Chansi Stuckey, American football player
- 1983 - Kurt Suzuki, American baseball player
- 1983 - Ueda Tatsuya, Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
- 1982 - Jered Weaver, American baseball player
- 1982 - Tony Gwynn Jr., American baseball player
- 1981 - Justin Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 - Scott Hammond, American photographer
- 1981 - Juka, Japanese singer
- 1980 - Kristina Lenko, Canadian ice skater
- 1980 - Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
- 1980 - Sarah Fisher, American race car driver
- 1980 - Tim Peper, American actor
- 1980 - Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
- 1980 - James Jones, American basketball player
- 1980 - Mellisa Hollingsworth, Canadian skeleton racer
- 1979 - Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
- 1979 - Adam Voges, Australian and West Australian cricketer
- 1979 - Stefan Booth, British actor
- 1979 - Bjorn Phau, German tennis player
- 1978 - Ko Soo, South Korean television and movie actor
- 1978 - Kyle Lohse, American baseball player
- 1978 - Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
- 1977 - Cabral Ibacka, Romanian actor and television presenter
- 1977 - Richard Parry, Canadian musician and composer (Arcade Fire)
- 1976 - Alicia Silverstone, American actress
- 1976 - Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine-Italian footballer
- 1975 - Cristiano Lucarelli, Italian football player
- 1975 - Daniella Deutscher, American actress
- 1974 - Paco León, Spanish actor
- 1973 - Chris Parks, American wrestler
- 1972 - Kurt Thomas, American basketball player
- 1971 - Darren Middleton, Australian guitarist
- 1971 - Friderika Bayer, Hungarian singer
- 1968 - Richard Hancox, English footballer
- 1968 - Tim Wise, American writer and activist
- 1967 - Marcus Bentley, British voice actor
- 1967 - Ekin Cheng Yee-Kin, Hong Kong actor and Cantopop singer
- 1967 - Liev Schreiber, American actor
- 1965 - Olaf Backasch, German footballer
- 1965 - Skip Heller, American musician
- 1963 - A. C. Green, American basketball player
- 1963 - Koji Ishikawa, Japanese children's author
- 1962 - Jon Secada, Cuban singer and songwriter
- 1962 - Carlos Carsolio, Mexican alpinist. Fourth person to summit all 14 of the eight-thousanders.
- 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author
- 1961 - Philippe Russo, French singer
- 1960 - Joe Boever, American baseball player
- 1959 - Chris Lowe, British musician (Pet Shop Boys)
- 1959 - Tony Meo, English snooker player
- 1957 - Alexander Tkachyov, Soviet gymnast
- 1957 - Bill Fagerbakke, American actor
- 1957 - Russell Simmons, American entrepreneur
- 1957 - Kyra Schon, American actress
- 1956 - Christoph Waltz, Austrian actor
- 1955 - Jorge Valdano, Argentine footballer
- 1953 - Tchéky Karyo, Turkish-French actor
- 1951 - Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
- 1950 - Meg Bennett, American writer and actress
- 1949 - Armand Assante, American actor
- 1949 - Stephen Gyllenhaal, American director
- 1948 - Linda McMahon, CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment
- 1947 - Ann Widdecombe, British politician
- 1947 - Julien Clerc, French singer
- 1947 - Jim Fielder, American bassist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- 1946 - Chuck Hagel, American politician
- 1946 - Bridget St John, English singer/songwriter and guitarist
- 1946 - Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist
- 1946 - Michael Mullen, American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- 1945 - Clifton Davis, American actor
- 1944 - Tony La Russa, American baseball manager
- 1944 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (d. 2006)
- 1943 - H. Rap Brown, American civil rights activist
- 1943 - Florian Pittis, Romanian artist (d. 2007)
- 1943 - Jimy Williams, American baseball manager
- 1942 - Bernice Johnson Reagon, American musician (Sweet Honey in the Rock)
- 1942 - Karl W. Richter, American aviator (d. 1967)
- 1942 - Johanna Sigurdardottir, Prime Minister of Iceland
- 1942 - Christopher Stone, American actor (d. 1995)
- 1941 - Roy Blount, Jr., American writer
- 1941 - Anne Rice, American writer
- 1941 - Robert Wilson, American theatre director
- 1941 - Karl Oppitzhauser, Austrian racing driver
- 1940 - Vic Hadfield, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940 - Silvio Marzolini, Argentine footballer
- 1940 - Alberto Vilar, Cuban-American investor and philanthropist
- 1938 - Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate
- 1937 - Jackie Collins, British author
- 1937 - Jim Sillars, Scottish politician
- 1934 - Sam Huff, American football player
- 1934 - Dimosthenis Sofianos, Greek journalist
- 1932 - Milan Chvostek, Canadian television director
- 1931 - Richard Rorty, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Stanford University (d. 2007)
- 1931 - Sir Terence Conran, English designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer
- 1931 - Basil D'Oliveira CBE, South African born cricketer
- 1929 - Scotty Beckett, American child actor, Our Gang comedies (d. 1968)
- 1929 - Leroy Van Dyke, American singer
- 1928 - Alvin Toffler, American novelist
- 1928 - Torben Ulrich, Danish musician, writer, filmmaker and tennis player
- 1923 - Charlton Heston, American actor and former president of the NRA (d. 2008)
- 1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, 26th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 1987)
- 1922 - Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman
- 1918 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
- 1917 - Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (d. 1967)
- 1916 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2009)
- 1916 - Jan Murray, American comedian (d. 2006)
- 1916 - George Sidney, American film director (d. 2002)
- 1914 - Jim Cairns, Australian politician (d. 2003)
- 1914 - Brendan Gill, American writer (d. 1997)
- 1911 - Sir Michael Hordern, British actor (d. 1995)
- 1910 - Frankie Crosetti, American baseball player (d. 2002)
- 1907 - Run Run Shaw, Hong Kong media mogul
- 1903 - John Vincent Atanasoff, American computer pioneer (d. 1995)
- 1903 - Pierre Garbay, French army general and military governor of Paris (d. 1980)
- 1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German military officer and senior Nazi (d. 1946)
- 1903 - Bona Arsenault, French Canadian politician, historian and genealogist (d. 1993)
- 1895 - Buster Keaton, American comedian (d. 1966)
- 1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian politician (d. 1934)
- 1892 - Hermann Glauert, British aerodynamicist (d. 1934)
- 1890 - Dr. Alan L. Hart (Born Lucille Hart), First known American female to male transsexual (SRS in 1917), radiologist, tuberculosis researcher, writer and novelist. (d. 1962)
- 1888 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1954)
- 1886 - Luis Alberni, Spanish actor (d. 1962)
- 1884 - Subramaniya Siva, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1925)
- 1881 - Walther von Brauchitsch, German Commander-in-Chief (d. 1948)
- 1880 - Damon Runyon, American writer (d. 1946)
- 1877 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (d. 1946)
- 1876 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (d. 1958)
- 1868 - Marcelo T. de Alvear, president of Argentina
- 1862 - Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930)
- 1861 - Frederic Remington, American painter (d. 1909)
- 1861 - Walter Rauschenbusch, Christian Theologian and Baptist Minister (d. 1918)
- 1858 - Michael I. Pupin, Serbian-born telephone pioneer (d. 1935)
- 1841 - Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (d. 1912)
- 1841 - Maria Sophie of Bavaria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1925)
- 1836 - Juliette Adam, French writer (d. 1936)
- 1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (d. 1893)
- 1814 - Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
- 1807 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician, prime minister of the Province of Canada (d. 1864)
- 1787 - François Guizot, French statesman (d. 1874)
- 1759 - Antoine Arbogast, French mathematician (d. 1803)
- 1723 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798)
- 1720 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (d. 1778)
- 1657 - Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (d. 1747)
- 1626 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland (d. 1712)
- 1625 - Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy (d. 1661)
- 1585 - Anna of Tyrol, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1618)
- 1570 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1637)
- 1562 - Christian Sørensen Longomontanus, Danish astronomer (d. 1647)
- 1550 - King Charles IX of Sweden (d. 1611)
- 1542 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (d. 1621)
- 1515 - Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (d. 1586)
- 1379 - King Henry III of Castile (d. 1406)
- 1331 - James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)
- 1289 - King Louis X of France (d. 1316)
- 1276 - Margaret of Brabant, Queen of Germany (d. 1311)
- 1160 - Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France (d. 1220)